Chapter 11
This framework describes the transformation of raw data into meaningful clinical wisdom.
What is the DIKW Framework?
These systems provide clinicians with knowledge and patient-specific information to improve decisions.
What are Clinical Decision Support systems?
This term describes patients who actively participate in their healthcare using technology.
What is an ePatient?
This term refers to using information technologies to support healthcare delivery.
What is digital health?
This is a secure application that allows a person to access and manage personal health information.
What is a personal health record?
This term describes online platforms where users create and share their own content.
What is social media?
This type of practice uses the best available evidence to guide patient care decisions.
What is evidence-based practice?
The overall goal of CDS systems is to improve clinical decision-making and this outcome.
What is patient care quality?
This term describes the intersection of medical informatics, public health, and technology.
What is eHealth?
This subset of digital health uses mobile devices and wireless technology.
What is mHealth?
This type of PHR is connected directly to a provider’s EHR or patient portal.
What is a tethered PHR?
This group is the only one who may share their own health information on social media without violating privacy rules.
What are patients or consumers?
This research approach analyzes real-world clinical outcomes to determine what works in practice.
What is practice-based evidence?
These CDS tools alert clinicians to potential medication allergies.
What are interruptive alerts?
Patients who track personal health metrics are often called this.
What are quantified selfers?
These devices track personal health metrics like heart rate or physical activity.
What are wearable sensors?
This regulation requires patients to have access to their health information.
What is HIPAA?
YouTube and Instagram are examples of this category of social media.
What is video or image sharing?
This EBP model illustrates the transformation of research knowledge into clinical practice.
What is the Stevens Star Model?
This phenomenon occurs when clinicians ignore frequent alerts.
What is alert fatigue?
These online communities allow patients to share experiences and health information.
What are virtual patient communities?
The ability for systems to communicate and exchange data is called this.
What is Interoperability?
The most used feature of a PHR by patients is to view what?
What are laboratory results?
One major challenge of social media in healthcare is maintaining this ethical principle.
What is patient privacy?
These healthcare principles define quality care as safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered.
What are the STEEP principles?
These are the 6 overarching CDS categories.
What are Medication dosing support, Order facilitator, Point-of-care alerts and reminders, Relevant information display, Expert system, and Workflow support?
This initiative allowed patients to read their clinical notes online.
What is OpenNotes or the OpenNotes Project?
A barrier to digital health adoption is lack of this skill among patients.
What is Digital literacy?
This term refers to unequal access to technology that affects PHR use.
What is the digital divide?
Healthcare organizations create these to guide appropriate online conduct.
What are Social media policies?